The Russian tennis-player Maria Sharapova is in Top 20 of the most influential women in the sports field.

The well-known Russian children's writer and screen writer Vladimir Zheleznikov, aged 91, died in Moscow.

The troupe of the Moscow Academic Vakhtangov Theatre got together in the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow today.

The renowned Russian film director Eldar Ryazanov, aged 88, died in Moscow on the night of November 30.

The Moscow City Court sentenced the physicist Maksim Lyudomirsky convicted of treason to nine years in a high-security prison.

A square in Moscow has been named after the great ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, who would have turned 90 this Friday.

The Russian film director Nikita Mikhalkov has won the Award for Contribution into World Cinema at the Indian International Film Festival.

On November 9 the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates the natal day of Nestor the Chronicler.

St Petersburg brand Saint-Tokyo was established in 2012 by designer Yury Pitenin who has spent many years in Tokyo.

The world premiere of the karaoke comedy The Best Day by the Russian film director Zhora Kryzhovnikov will run in The Master Theater in New York on December 18.